PART X 
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Alligators and the Unseen Presence of Seminole Indians. 
Sonnyboy Starts on the 
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Florida—a Little Known Area of It—the Everglades. 
Last Lap of His Memorable Adventures Which Bring Him to the College Campus 
HIS is an Episode of Fear! 
iF That gnawing, uncontrollable 
Fear, which is neither inherent 
cowardice nor lack of moral stamina. 
Strong men have experienced it; 
battlefields have developed it in the 
most rugged characters. There is a 
kind of fear which no man under- 
stands and which has nothing what- 
ever to do with—the soul of the 
individual. 
Sonnyboy yanked me back to a con- 
sciousness of those years which had 
By W. LIVINGSTON LARNED 
separated us, one from the other. I 
was to know that he was afraid of the 
dark, and that his cheeks could turn 
deathly pale—from fright! 
It came as a sharp surprise to me, 
although, in the dim light of my study, 
at this quiet time, as I live again 
those few hours, I am half inclined > 
to sympathise with him. An alligator 
makes a hideous sound . . . when you 
hear it of a dark night on an Ever- 
glades hammock. 
Sonnyboy had been “raised South,” 
Comradeship 
an Unexpected Visitor in Camp, to the Accompaniment of Croaking 

Black Bass Fishing in 
by an old-fashioned negro “Mammy” 
who loved him so much and so deeply, 
that she took to the cradle-side, tradi- 
tions which were as much a part of 
her life as the very air she breathed. 
Every shadow had held a “goblin”; 
every twilight hour a stealthy foot- 
step. He had been frightened into 
sleep! 
Then he matured and the old influ- 
ences were apparently forgotten, al- 
though I can recall that, even as a 
fairly sizeable boy, darkness puzzled 
and awed 
him, and his 
Mother’s 
“good - night” 
kiss held a 
secret signifi- 
cance. 
I blame. . 
myself! It is 
the father 
who must take 
such problems 
in hand. No 
boy who has 
been reared 
to the outdoor 
life, will ever 
The Tamiami balk at black 
‘ night! Your 
Trail Canal sturdy little 
; and its Boy Scout of 
Limestone today, a di- 

Road 
minutive 
customer, will 
walk a _ mile, 
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